Trying a feature: User Tagging / Mentions

[Narv]

Hello Plazarians. It's been like all day since the last update so clearly I better have something to show for myself. I do and it's called User Mentions. Or tagging. or something

You should be able to type @SomeUsername, and as you type a little box will appear with names. If you click that name that person will get a notification. Hopefully this will help with some of the headaches around not being able to contact users outside of threads.

EDIT: you can also make it work by typing this:

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[mention]SomeName[/mention]

I just noticed the little box when you type @ sometimes pops up in weird places on the screen, so the BBCode method might work better in those situations.

Here is the fine print:

1) This is a third-party extension which appears to be pretty well supported at the moment, but it could always break at any time.
2) I'm hoping it's more useful than annoying to have this - if I am incorrect in that (and if a lot of you agree on my incorrectness) please let me know and I will remove it.
3) If you would rather NOT get these notifications, you can turn them OFF by going to your User Control Panel, opening the "Board Preferences" tab and opening the "Edit notifications options" thing. See here: https://imgur.com/rw0UcC4. It's the very last checkbox: "Someone mentioned me".

Thanks to Mojo for the idea to look into this, and I hope it's helpful to all your incredible feats of kingdom self-organization, scholarly lore archiving and OOME spamming.

[Oro]

@Narv

I still love you. And you da best. *glomps*

[Moriel]

@Narv Wooo!

[Narv]

one more thing to test @Sil

[Lita.]

@Narv

Thank you, Narv! For all the things and work you've put in. So appreciated :)

[Silky Gooseness]

I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED and you didn’t even do a chalk circle and offer me a bowl of cream what is this

@Narv

[Uruva]

2) I'm hoping it's more useful than annoying to have this - if I am incorrect in that (and if a lot of you agree on my incorrectness) please let me know and I will remove it.

Emphasis on this.

So individuals can turn on and off the notifications, which is great, but I don't think Narv or the rest of us actively maintaining the forum feel comfortable turning it off since there might be an issue that requires our attention where tagging is the easiest way of getting the attention. But if it's overused it'll eventually be tuned out by us. Think boy who cried wolf.

I guess what I'm saying is get all your spamming of @Narv notifications out of your system in this thread for the next few hours then try to be responsible with it.

[Narv]

What @Uruva said

[Oro]

Narv do you need a secretary? Just tell everyone to tag me and Ill ignore them all and make your life easier. :P

[Narv]

That sounds like a perfect plan to me

[Nessila]

faaannncccyyy

@Narv @Narv @Narv and @Uruva and @Silk and @Narv

Cool

[Uruva]

Nessila has been banned

[Oro]

Does that make Nessila the 14th banned account? The first 13 being Narv’s other accounts.

[Fairy Nuff]

This is awesome, thanks Narv (see how restrained I was there! no tag!)

[Winddancer]

Awesome! I wont glomp you, as I dont glomp, instead I will just not torture you.. for a while..

[Lirimaer]

Testing.

I hope @Winddancer has an umbrella.

@Lirimaer oh I see. So it'll have the @ attached either way. Not something to use IC then.

[edit: and yet, I am not self-notified. What is this witchcraft? How does it know I already know? :smiley10:]

[Winddancer]

Delayed? Didnt get the notification, but I do have an umbrella..

[Lirimaer]

It didn't work on you?

But if you have a brolly, I am all delight! Nice to see you, Windy.

[Silky Gooseness]

Testing: @Winddancer

[Winddancer]

Nope, I know it works when people quote me, but Lirimaer's @ didnt :(
Nice to see you too! :D
Sil: That one worked! Weird..

[Reikon Suchi-ru]

@Winddancer hullo luv!

[Winddancer]

I walked into that one, didnt I? :P

[Nessila]

Oh sorry, I didn't see I was summoned to be banned because no one tagged me in a mention. Therefore it must not be official.

Aha! Neh neh neh neh

[DEATH]

@Narv I need you to make me a Ruler of Mordor so I can edit the color out of all @Nessila's posts.

Also this tagging thing is a terrible idea. So it will no doubt be wildly successful.

[Mojo]

This is great, thanks!

[Uruva]

My fingers are itching, Loke, but I'm trying to keep my promise of minimal power abuse.

[DEATH]

My fingers are itching, Loke, but I'm trying to keep my promise of minimal power abuse.

If only there were some kind of 'like' function. Channel that itch.

[Winddancer]

@Narv I need you to make me a Ruler of Mordor so I can edit the color out of all @Nessila's posts.

Also this tagging thing is a terrible idea. So it will no doubt be wildly successful.

You are thinking too small. How about remove ALL pink! And yellow and orange and anything else that makes ones eyes bleed when trying to decipher it.

[DEATH]

@Narv I need you to make me a Ruler of Mordor so I can edit the color out of all @Nessila's posts.

Also this tagging thing is a terrible idea. So it will no doubt be wildly successful.

You are thinking too small. How about remove ALL pink! And yellow and orange and anything else that makes ones eyes bleed when trying to decipher it.

One step at a time Windy. Get the door open a crack first. Then you can jam a foot in, and you have a house. Then you can lob a few grenades over fences and have a neighbourhood. And that's when you build your atomic bomb.

[Winddancer]

I aint got time for patience no more! 17 years older!

[Burnt Toast]

*builds a summoning circle for mischief*

*Takes a deep breath*

*Rapidly fires off several names* "@Dwim @Baingíl Randír @Narv @Mor Toast @Sil @Arnyn @Ta'leus Shieldsong "

*waits for party to start*
*toasts nearby objects in summoning fire*

Excellent.

[Dwim]

@Mor Toast huh what. What's going on here, why am I on fire?? Ah well let's just go with it.

[Arnyn]

@Mor Toast *facepalms YOU, not herself*

[Moriel]

Notifications seem to not be consistent? I was mentioned somewhere and got one, but mentioned elsewhere and did not get one, I just happened to be reading the thread and see the mention

[Oro]

They have been pretty consistent for me. But I also dont think I would notice if i didn’t get one. But I’m getting plenty of notifications. Maybe certain ones are lagging.

[Burnt Toast]

@Mor Toast *facepalms YOU, not herself*

Aww, you love me.

Yay, Dwim! You're getting the hang of all this again!

I'm fairly certain I'm getting notifications for all of the mentions thus far-- I've kept a pretty close eye on most threads.

[Reikon Suchi-ru]

@Mor Toast Didja get this one?

[Burnt Toast]

*feels a strange tug and is pulled abruptly into another dimension*

WHO SUMMONED THE TOASTY ONE
WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING

Also why am I not a minion

[Reikon Suchi-ru]

That is a very good question. Only you can answer that one!

[Nessila]

@Narv I need you to make me a Ruler of Mordor so I can edit the color out of all @Nessila's posts.

Also this tagging thing is a terrible idea. So it will no doubt be wildly successful.

You are thinking too small. How about remove ALL pink! And yellow and orange and anything else that makes ones eyes bleed when trying to decipher it.

One step at a time Windy. Get the door open a crack first. Then you can jam a foot in, and you have a house. Then you can lob a few grenades over fences and have a neighbourhood. And that's when you build your atomic bomb.

first I want to ask, DO I KNOW YOU? Why would you want to be a ruler who abuses such mighty power? You're a self proclaimed clog wearer. That tells enough of you to warrant NO ABUSE OF POWER. Also, Melkor would love you for your ingenuity and I thought we don't love in Mordor so thus you can't be there, candle. Second, a like button for @Uruva would be more like a piercing dagger button that would kill me every time she hit it. And then that would thay would just become abusive torture. I don't approve. It sounds mean. Third, @Winddancer
comment in response wins. "No patience 17 years older" poop

[DEATH]

You are thinking too small. How about remove ALL pink! And yellow and orange and anything else that makes ones eyes bleed when trying to decipher it.

One step at a time Windy. Get the door open a crack first. Then you can jam a foot in, and you have a house. Then you can lob a few grenades over fences and have a neighbourhood. And that's when you build your atomic bomb.

first I want to ask, DO I KNOW YOU? Why would you want to be a ruler who abuses such mighty power? You're a self proclaimed clog wearer. That tells enough of you to warrant NO ABUSE OF POWER. Also, Melkor would love you for your ingenuity and I thought we don't love in Mordor so thus you can't be there, candle. Second, a like button for @Uruva would be more like a piercing dagger button that would kill me every time she hit it. And then that would thay would just become abusive torture. I don't approve. It sounds mean. Third, @Winddancer
comment in response wins. "No patience 17 years older" poop

What?

[Nessila]

I do not know why it says "p*** at the end of my post

[Winddancer]

Sooo much pink.. omg..

[Reikon Suchi-ru]

@Winddancer So you're saying you'd make a terrible Ent?

[Winddancer]

Oh hell yea, I aint got no time for that!

[Nessila]

@Winddancer just let it go and dance in the wind. Relax. Let the color soothe your soul. Embrace the evil of the pink and learn to fear it for its power and control of your mind. Love its total authority. Dance to the tune of the foo nasty.

[Winddancer]

@Winddancer just let it go and dance in the wind. Relax. Let the color soothe your soul. Embrace the evil of the pink and learn to fear it for its power and control of your mind. Love its total authority. Dance to the tune of the foo nasty.

[Finduilas Faelivrin]

@Veowyn Pretty cool!!! @Narv @Nienna @Arteris Yippee!!! What do people think about tagging people while writing an RP post (so that they will be notified they've been mentioned in a post)? Or, erm... is that what it's for? Great work, @Narv!

[Oro]

Personally @Finduilas Faelivrin I think that a classy tag at the end of an RP post is no big deal, if neither you or the other person care. I think that if some people want to make it off limits in their threads, that is up to them but in general I’d say its ok.

[Winddancer]

Or do it at the end of the post and use white font so it cant be seen! :D